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On January 1, 2013, new Illinois legislation will go into effect, which will limit employers' ability to gain access to employees' or job candidates' social media content. The legislation, HB3782, bars employers from requesting or requiring any employee or prospective employee to provide a password or related social networking account information. After news reports early this year talked about…

On September 27, 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed two pieces of legislation intended to protect the privacy of social media accounts. The first, AB 1844, covers employees, and the second, SB 1349, covers students at postsecondary educational institutions. I wrote an earlier post about how some employers are demanding that employment applicants give them their Facebook user names and…

Vermont recently amended its security breach notification law with a number of changes. Included in the amendment are changes to the definition of "security breach," guidance on determining whether a breach has occurred, a 45-day deadline for notification, and a requirement of notifying the attorney general of a breach. The legislation, H.254, became Act 109 following the governor's signature. For…

I heard an interesting radio show on NPR the other day. Auto manufacturers are rolling out the next generation of cars that try to implement the lessons the phone manufacturers learned from Apple, Google, and others. Let's put screens on cars, and give them apps, they say. Let's do for the car what iOS and Android did for phones and tablets. Cars dashboards should have apps, just like any other…

On June 15, 2012, Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy signed House Bill 6001, legislation to implement provisions of the state budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. Included in the legislation was a series of amendments to Connecticut’s breach notification law. The most significant set of amendments to the breach notification law added a requirement to report breaches to the Connecticut Attorney…

Back in March, I wrote about new legislation at the state level that would prohibit employers from asking job applicants for their social media user names and passwords. Legislatures in eleven states have introduced social media privacy bills, and in one state, Maryland, one of the bills has become law. The idea behind these laws is that when employers demand that a job applicant disclose his or…

Yesterday, the first criminal charges in the BP oil spill disaster were unveiled, as the government arrested and charged BP engineer Kurt Mix with obstruction of justice. What was the crime charged? The government charged Mix with obstruction of justice based on Mix allegedly deleting text messages from his iPhone. In other words, the first criminal case in the BP disaster had to do with…

We have all seen stories about how social media accounts are treasure troves of information. In past years, legal experts have discussed the issue of whether employers should view social media information of prospective employees. Some employers are tempted by the amount of information available on these services to vet employees and obtain a much more candid view of what makes job applicants…

Yes, yes, we’ve heard a lot about critical infrastructure protection, its importance to the nation’s security, and preventing a “Digital Pearl Harbor.” We need more information sharing between the public sector and the private sector, the analysts say. We also need more information sharing among private companies, hopefully without creating various kinds of liability—all for the sake of…

Over the years, Congress and the Senate have considered legislation of various kinds and scope that would have contained data security provisions, including breach notification requirements for businesses holding certain kinds of sensitive personal information. This year is no exception. There are numerous security-related bills. S.1408 is an example of a bill focused on breach notification. …

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